Spiking already?

[Puja]

Originally Posted by camille1585

I was going to say the same thing as Puja, that saves me the typing!
I used to think that my hybrids bloomed rather randomly, but after years of logging the same plants and monitoring temperature variation, I see patterns. One is that the hybrids will more or less spike in the same order each year, even if the start of spiking shifts from year to year.

That is really interesting as that is what I had typed at first! My phals also seem to have a rhythm in that the same plants always spike together, and those grouping spike in the same order. It can take a year or two for new acquisitions to fall into place because they need to adjust to their new environment from wherever they grew before, but after that it never shifts much. There are only a few plants that do not follow this pattern, which I guess is because some genetic factor requires additional triggers rather than just temperature (daylight hours or humidity or shorter or longer periods of temp change, I guess).